We are Those Who Knock On Doors - One Meaningful Thing I did Today (30-day challenge)

Busy day, Monday. At work we have a huge backlog from the weekend, while at the same time the responsibilities increase with requests, emails, issues, payments, calls... In a large company, I suppose, there's lots of boring and regular / routine stuff happening, but not in a medium size or a small company... or in a company that's continually developing, evolving, and being revolutionized by the internet sales and internet development! Anyways, enough about work ;) what I really enjoyed today and what touched me was the fact that,

Realizing that We are Those who Knock on Doors - One Meaningful Thing I Did Today

We had the brothers' meeting tonight and we enjoyed the fact that the Triune God didn't "talk to us from the heavens, trying to get us all perfect and holy that we may join Him up there", but rather God came to "knock on our door". The Triune God is the First One who went door-knocking by becoming a man, becoming what we are, coming to our door... that He may come in! In incarnation He came to us, right where we are, to be with us and knock on the door of our heart - not by forcing us or threatening us, but by loving us!

Even now after we received the Lord, He is still knocking on our door - He's at the door of our heart, wanting to come into every part of our heart and take over, make His home there in our heart(Eph. 3:16-18). When the Lord comes in, He makes His home in our heart and makes our heart His home. And then He starts re-decorating, re-arranging, and re-modelling everything in us because He wants to feel at home in us! That's why we are going through a process of transformation - so that we may be a suitable and delightful home for our Lord Jesus!

The result of the Lord making His home in our heart, as we open the doors to every part of our inner being, is that He makes us the same as He is! He is the One who comes to knock on our door - and we are made the same as He is! We are those who go to knock on people's doors - sometimes we do it physically by going out door-knocking to seek out the hungry and thirsty sinners, and other times we go to visit the saints and the new ones to bring God to them! This is so wonderful - we become Christ's duplication and reproduction!

I have never seen this before - the fact that the Triune God comes to us "door-knocking" and we go to people "door-knocking"! When we approach people on the street to ask them if they know the Lord Jesus, we start knocking at the door of their hearts. Actually, it is the Triune God in us knocking on the door of others' hearts through us. That's why the Lord Jesus said that we shouldn't worry what to say, because the heavenly Father will speak in us! All we need to do is present ourselves and give ourselves to the Lord - make ourselves available to Him!

So today the Lord sends us out two by two to go and preach the gospel, and the way we want to take is by knocking on doors! I have done this before together with the saints in several cities and even several countries, and it is a challenging and exciting thing to do - going out with the saints on the gospel by knocking on doors! Hallelujah, we can go out one with the Lord and one with one another in the Body of Christ, having the Triune God going in us and through us to visit people in their homes! ... - this is what I was impressed with the most, and something I'm praying for to see more - see what's on God's heart about door-knocking...

Web Design & SEO: Illustrator Text Effect AND SEO Infographics - article reviews

Article reviews - some interesting articles in both the Web Design and SEO - search engine optimization - found online: The Best Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials and 4 Essential SEO Infographics. See below what these articles talk about:

The Best Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials

1. How to Make a Cartoon Style Cereal Box Logo in Adobe Illustrator CS3
2. Quick Tutorial: Gradient Strokes
3. How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment
4. Create a Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment
5. Illustrator Tutorial - 3D lighted text effect
6. New Year Creating a New Typeface in Illustrator
7. Old School Type – Line Gradients
8. Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
9. Ornate Lettering Process
10. Tutorial : Create a cool water effect
11. Quick Tutorial: Adding Gradients to Text
12. How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator
13. Creating a crazy cool logo
14. Working With Type In Illustrator
15. Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
16. Design Soft Stylized 3D Type
17. Illustrator Tutorial: Bling Bling Text Effect
18. Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator
19. Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
20. Illustrator Quick Tips #2 - Scatter Brushes

Read the full article online - The Best Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials.

4 Essential SEO Infographics

1. Pie Chart of SEO Time Expenditure (how SEOs spend their time)
2. Hat Color vs. Value Scatterplot of SEO Tactics (scatterplot of SEO tactics)
3. Flowchart of SEO-Friendliness (order of operations to make a site SEO-friendly)
4. Venn Diagram of Internet Marketing Professions (professions at the intersection of Technology, Marketing and statistics)

This article is quite an insightful and interesting one, though it is composed of mainly some graphs.... read more about the "4 Essential SEO Infographics" online.

about the article lists on stefanm on wordpress.com

I truly apologize for not writing on this blog for a while, but "I'be been busy", as they say. Check out the Cool Articles and the Social Media Article series on my other blog! Though I dodged the twitter thinggie for a while, eventually I gave in to so many of my friends who use it, and I'm on twitter also, writing every day about stuff, especially about website design, website programming, SEO, internet marketing, interesting stuff....(I hope).

Now about the collection of the articles in my link collection(there's also an archive of cool articles/twitter-facebook related ones): There are so many sites out there that write about interesting things related to different niches, and I was thinking to compile them, even to express an opinion about them, and list them! This becomes a more difficult task as the list of such sites increases. Some of them are:

• techcrunch, mashable, smashingapps, readwriteweb,
• engadget, thenextweb, smashingmagazine; sbwire; tech blorge;
• programmable web; seo scoop; webdesign booth; search engine journal; css reflex;shoemoney; 1st web designer; instant shift; blog oh blog; graph paper press; web design dev; design reviver; noupe; doshdosh; seosmarty; creative SEO; outlaw design blog; SEO design solutions;

and many others! Anyways, since so many other people on twitter and their blogs mention these articles, I was thinking even to introduce the most interesting ones of them here, on this blog, with a few words, at least with their main topics. Believe me, some of them are really interesting!

So, in conclusion, follow me on twitter here, or the business account, or the account where u'll get some spiritual nourishment.